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Commentary
Radical Energy Breakthroughs—Without the Risk
Among the greatest revolutions of the modern world is one that most of us take for granted: electrification. When we flip on the light switch, turn on the TV, or plug in our cell phones, power is there, 99.99%
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Renewables
China Overtakes EU’s Wind Installations
China has edged past the European Union (EU) in terms of total installed wind capacity, with 145.1 GW to the EU’s 141.6 GW. This means that China, which erected a stunning 30.5 GW in 2015—nearly half of
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Nuclear
Entergy Sheds Uneconomic Merchant Nuclear Plants to Focus on Regulated Business
Entergy Corp., a dominant investor-owned utility in the middle south, hugging the Mississippi River drainage area from New Orleans to Memphis (including a piece of Texas), faces what may be a unique generation
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Renewables
Vattenfall Completes World’s First Decommissioning of an Offshore Wind Farm
Vattenfall has dismantled five offshore wind turbines—with a total capacity of 10 MW—at the Yttre Stengrund wind farm in Kalmar Sound, Sweden. The month-long decommissioning project was the first in the
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Nuclear
Commission Backs Plan to Store World’s Nuclear Waste in Australian Outback
A nuclear power plant in Australia—a country that harbors the world’s largest resources of uranium but uses no nuclear power—wouldn’t be economical, but building a nuclear storage and disposal facility
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Renewables
First Turbine Deployed at French Tidal Power Farm
The first of two 500-kW OpenHydro tidal turbines has been successfully deployed at French utility EDF’s much-watched Paimpol-Bréhat tidal project, which is under construction in North Brittany, France. When
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O&M
New Quality Assurance Program Launched for Wind Turbine Blades
Blades are probably the most delicate part of a wind turbine and the most susceptible to accidental damage. Some estimates suggest that greater than 90% of wind turbine blades are damaged to some degree while
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Legal & Regulatory
The Road to Distributed Generation: How to Avoid the Bumps
Distributed generation (DG) is receiving much attention as a resource that can facilitate the development of a smarter, more resilient, and more sustainable electric grid. Several jurisdictions, including New
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O&M
Leveraging Drones and Robots for O&M Savings
If you’re still thinking of drones and robots as more toy than tool, think again. The drones now working in the power sector have gone far beyond remote-control hobbies and now resemble something closer to
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Renewables
EEI Gets Pushback on Proposed Rebranding of Utility Solar
The Edison Electric Institute has come under fire for a new communications plan that was intended to depict utilities as more community-minded.